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Looking to read Junot Diaz's two short stories, Negocios and Aguantando? Good news! Click below for the electronic version of each, found inside Junot Diaz's book Drown. Click the links below and then click on each title in the Table of Contents to read.
Pro-Tip: Only one person can read the book at a time, so if you get the following error, relax! Just come back and try in a few.
Luigi Pirandello
THE CATASTROPHIC 'MODERNITY' AND THE 'UNCIVILIZED' CIVILIZATION IN LUIGI PIRANDELLO AND LUIGI ANTONELLI.
THE SHORT PLAY AND POSTMODERNIST STAGE DIRECTING: A VIRTUAL EXPERIMENT WITH PIRANDELLO'S CECÈ.
FROM NESTOROFF TO GARBO: PIRANDELLIAN HUMOUR IN ITS CINEMATIC VERNACULAR.
Tim O'Brien
Memory and Narrative: Reading The Things They Carried for Psyche and Persona.
Reading and Understanding: Tim O'Brien and the Narrative of Failure
Teaching Identity Performance through Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"
A Lesser Imitation (?): How Redeployment Recalls, Expands, and Departs from The Things They Carried.
Junot Díaz
"Tú no Eres Nada de Dominicano": Unnatural Narration and De-Naturalizing Gender Constructs in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Articles.
Junot Díaz's 'Otravida, Otravez' and Hospitalia: The Workings of Hostile Hospitality.
DISSEMINATING "EL CHIVO": JUNOT DÍAZ'S RESPONSE TO MARIO VARGAS LLOSA IN THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO.
Reading Junot Díaz and filling the void of Latinx writers in US Literature.
In Darkness We Meet: A Conversation with Junot Díaz.
Caves, Masks, and Code Switching: The Inventive Narratives of Junot Díaz.
IN AND OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM: DOMINICAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY IN JUNOT DÍAZ'SHOW TO DATE A BROWNGIRL, BLACKGIRL, WHITEGIRL, OR HALFIE.
Chimamanda Adichie
The Women of Things Fall Apart, Speaking from a Different Perspective: Chimamanda Adichie's Headstrong Storytellers.
Afropolitanism as critical consciousness: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's and Teju Cole's internet presence.
Ethnic Tensions and Political Turmoil: Postcolonial Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus.
Sidestepping the Political 'Graveyard of Creativity': Polyphonic Narratives and Reenvisioning the Nation-State in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun.
Frailties of the Flesh: Observing the Body in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus.
Embodied genealogies and gendered violence in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's writing.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's
Sense of Uprootedness in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Queen of Dreams.
Desires and Conflicts in Female Bonding in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Novels: Sister of My Heart and Vine of Desire.
Agency, Narrativity Gender in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Palace Of Illusions.
The Unfolding of Korobi: A Critical Analysis of the Gradual Growth of the Central Character in Oleander Girl.
Expectations and Acceptation in Silver Pavements, Golden Roofs.
Eva Hoffman
Negotiating the self: Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation and the question of immigrant autobiography.
Translating Self into Liminal Space: Eva Hoffman’s Acculturation in/to a Postmodern World.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AUTHENTICITY, HUMAN, AND POSTHUMAN: EVA HOFFMAN'S LOST IN TRANSLATION.
EVA HOFFMAN'S DOUBLE EMIGRATION: CANADA AS THE SITE OF EXILE IN LOST IN TRANSLATION.
This Is How You Lose Her by ISBN: 9781594487361Publication Date: 2012-09-11Finalist for the 2012 National Book Award A Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012 Finalist for the 2012 Story Prize Chosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more... "Electrifying." -The New York Times Book Review "Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... D#65533;az's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -O Magazine From the award-winning author, a stunning collection that celebrates the haunting, impossible power of love.
Reading Junot Diaz by ISBN: 9780822963950Publication Date: 2015-12-16. Reading Junot D#65533;az is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout D#65533;az's writings.
Masculinity after Trujillo by ISBN: 9780813049304Publication Date: 2014-03-11Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. Many critics will attribute this to an outgrowth of "traditional" Latin American patriarchal culture. Masculinity after Trujillo demonstrates why they are mistaken. In this extraordinary work, Maja Horn argues that this common Dominican attitude became ingrained during the dictatorship (1930-61) of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, as well as through the U.S. military occupation that preceded it. Where previous studies have focused mainly on Spanish colonialism and the controversial sharing of the island with Haiti, Horn emphasizes the underexamined and lasting influence of U.S. imperialism and how it prepared the terrain for Trujillo's hyperbolic language of masculinity.
- TEDTalks : Chimamanda Adichie - The Danger of a Single StoryInspired by Nigerian history and tragedies all but forgotten by recent generations of Westerners, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's works are jewels in the crown of diasporan literature. Her novel Half of a Yellow Sun helped inspire new, cross-generational communication about the Biafran war, and literary giant Chinua Achebe deemed her "wise," and "endowed with the gift of ancient storytellers." In this TEDTalk, Adichie tells the audience how she found her authentic cultural voice, and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding
Before We Visit the Goddess by ISBN: 9781476792002Publication Date: 2016-04-19A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgiveable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover--but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined. As the marriage crumbles and Bela is forced to forge her own path, she unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with indelible lessons about freedom, heartbreak, and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel. In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the different kinds of love that bind us across generations. Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texas--an extraordinary journey told through a sparkling symphony of voices.
Chinua Achebe S Legacy by ISBN: 9780798304924Publication Date: 2015-12-01Chinua Achebe s novels and essays have always drawn our attention to issues of memory, the story, history and our own obligation to history as Africans. Achebe constantly goes back to the authority of narrative the story; and as the subsequent generations of African writers like Chimamanda Adichie keep returning to, to celebrate Africa s many stories, its moments of failure and triumph. Achebe, more than any other writer on this continent, has inspired many, and hopefully the African story tellers of the coming centuries, irrespective of their location will continue to be inspired by him. This collection of essays is an enduring tribute to this rich legacy of Achebe."
Drown by ISBN: 9781573226066Publication Date: 1997-07-01From the beloved and award-winning author Junot D#65533;az, a spellbinding saga of a family's journey through the New World. A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot D#65533;az's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator-- Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family's precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the tenements of industrial New Jersey, and their epic passage from hope to loss to something like love. Here is the soulful, unsparing book that made D#65533;az a literary sensation.
Lost in Translation by ISBN: 9780140127737Publication Date: 1990-03-01"A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refuges. It is about us all." -The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. Entering into adolescence, she endured the painful pull of nostalgia and struggled to express herself in a strange unyielding new language. Her spiritual and intellectual odyssey continued in college and led her ultimately to New York's literary world yet still she felt caught between two languages, two cultures. But her perspective also made her a keen observer of an America in the flux of change. A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. Lost in Translation is also an incisive meditation on coming to terms with one's own uniqueness, on learning how deeply culture affects the mind and body, and finally, on what it means to accomplish a translation of one's self. "Hoffman raises one provocative question after another about the relationship between language and culture . . . and about the emotional cost of re-creating oneself." -Newsday
Shtetl by ISBN: 9780395822951Publication Date: 1997-10-02This series presents recent research on the effects of taxation and government expenditure programs on economic performance and analyses of the effects of potential tax reforms. The research results appear in a form that is accessible to tax practitioners and policymakers.
The Thing Around Your Neck by ISBN: 9780307455918Publication Date: 2010-06-01In these twelve dazzlng stories, the bestselling, award-winning Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explores the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, these stories map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
Time by ISBN: 184765259X
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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- Mostly full-text articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers
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Did you know you can copy and paste citations if you use the library's databases?
1. Save time - look for the "Cite" Button or " " icon.
2. Scroll to the style you need (MLA, APA)
3. Copy and paste the full citation into your paper
Ta Da! You're done! Well, almost. Sometimes weird formatting issues happen, so always double check your work.
Need help with in-text citations or more complicated citations? Use the OWL! It's super easy, and totally simple. This is also a really good time to make an appointment with a writing tutor to make sure your paper is totally perfect and all your citations are good to go.
Working on your Annotated Bibliography? We can help!
An annotation is super simple - basically, it's a few sentences about the kind of source you're using. Our friends at the OWL have some awesome, detailed tips!
An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation. Therefore, an annotated bibliography includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources. Depending on your project or the assignment, your annotations may do one or more of the following.
- Summarize: Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine how detailed your summary is.
For more help, see our handout on paraphrasing sources.
- Assess: After summarizing a source, it may be helpful to evaluate it. Is it a useful source? How does it compare with other sources in your bibliography? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?
For more help, see our handouts on evaluating resources.
- Reflect: Once you've summarized and assessed a source, you need to ask how it fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?
Your annotated bibliography may include some of these, all of these, or even others. If you're doing this for a class, you should get specific guidelines from your instructor.
